Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio: Trillium Books
Autor Daniel Skinner, Berkeley Franz Cuvânt înainte de Ted Stricklanden Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2019
More and more Americans find themselves in some way touched by the opioid epidemic. But while many have observed the effects of the crisis, Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio is the first book on this public health emergency composed entirely of first-person accounts. The collection unfolds across fifty gripping accounts by Ohioans at the center of the national epidemic. Shared through personal stories, poetry, interviews, and photos, these perspectives transcend typical one-dimensional portrayals of the crisis to offer a mosaic of how politics, religion, sports, economics, culture, race, and sexual orientation intersect in and around the epidemic.
Themes of pain and healing, despair and hope are woven throughout accounts of families who have lost loved ones to addiction, stories of survival, and experiences of working on the front lines in communities. In an attempt to give every voice the chance to be heard, Not Far from Me features contributors from across the state as they engage with the pain of opioid abuse and overdose, as well as the hope that personal- and community-level transformation brings. Ultimately, Not Far from Me humanizes the battle against addiction, challenges the stigma surrounding drug users, and unflinchingly faces the reality of the American opioid epidemic.
Themes of pain and healing, despair and hope are woven throughout accounts of families who have lost loved ones to addiction, stories of survival, and experiences of working on the front lines in communities. In an attempt to give every voice the chance to be heard, Not Far from Me features contributors from across the state as they engage with the pain of opioid abuse and overdose, as well as the hope that personal- and community-level transformation brings. Ultimately, Not Far from Me humanizes the battle against addiction, challenges the stigma surrounding drug users, and unflinchingly faces the reality of the American opioid epidemic.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814255384
ISBN-10: 0814255388
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 16 pages full-color
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Trillium
Seria Trillium Books
ISBN-10: 0814255388
Pagini: 312
Ilustrații: 16 pages full-color
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Trillium
Seria Trillium Books
Recenzii
“This important collection of responses to Ohio’s opioid crisis takes us through the grief-work of teachers, poets, coaches, clergy, families, physicians, and the addicted, showing us, on their own terms, what it is like to live in a burdened place. The consequences of the moral lapses of the pharmaceutical industry, policies that criminalize drug users, and politics that determine who should or should not be saved are seen here not through statistics but as forces that have shaped living communities and people who deserve a better world. These responses are a necessary antidote to the dehumanizing lens that has settled on our conversations about addiction and recovery.” —Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
“As a journalist and storyteller, I’m convinced that only through stories of real people will the stigma surrounding addiction fade—which is what makes projects like Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio so important and worth reading. We hear from them all: doctors, addicts, poets, mothers, librarians, nurses, pastors, inmates, and football coaches. Even though the stories in this volume are about one state, and only a few people from that state, together they tell one of the crucial stories of America today.” —Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland
“As I’ve traveled throughout Ohio, I’ve heard many personal stories of opioid addiction similar to those in Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio. These powerful stories will increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and help us better understand the complex issue of addiction so we can turn the tide of this epidemic and save lives.” —Senator Rob Portman
“There’s not a community in our state that hasn’t been affected by opioid addiction, and it’s so important to hear the voices of the families who are being torn apart. Their stories are a powerful call to action for us to work together to fight this public health crisis.” —Senator Sherrod Brown
“So much has been written, so much news reported, so many hands have been wrung in response to Ohio’s—and the nation’s—collective dope sickness. Too often, though, the voices of those affected have been lost in the din. Not Far from Me helps redress this loss by allowing Buckeyes to tell their own stories in their own ways. I loved hearing those voices in all their tear-inducing, maddening, uplifting, defiant bravery.” —Brian Alexander, author of Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
Notă biografică
Daniel Skinner, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Health Policy in the Department of Social Medicine at Ohio University, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Dublin, Ohio.
Berkeley Franz, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Community-Based Health in the Department of Social Medicine at Ohio University, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ohio.
Berkeley Franz, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Community-Based Health in the Department of Social Medicine at Ohio University, Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ohio.
Extras
Clearly there has been no shortage of public narratives about opioid abuse in Ohio. In fact, they are everywhere. Ohio is the “overdose capital of America,” an “epicenter,” “ground zero.” We know that Ohio is in the midst of a growing calamity, but we don’t know why. Journalists have been busy constructing different kinds of stories about why this calamity is happening. Widely read authors have floated explanations for growing opioid abuse and asked, What could be behind the staggering numbers and seemingly endless list of worsts and firsts? The journalist Sam Quinones has emphasized the role that national economic and social trends played in laying a foundation for opioid abuse to flourish; he included among his list of causes Americans’ long-standing attraction to individualism and a tendency to stigmatize addiction, poverty, and mental illness. While the drugs originated outside of Ohio, Quinones insists that the social conditions in our state made us especially vulnerable. Other writers, such as J. D. Vance, emphasize cultural values and, in the process, give credence to stereotypes that have long beset Appalachian communities. For Vance, personal responsibility—yet more individualism—seems to be the answer.
The public historian Elizabeth Catte helps us understand how in Appalachia specifically, dominant narratives have largely come from the outside, tending to universalize the region as a passive victim to economic crisis and addiction. What we need instead, according to Catte, is to let individuals speak for themselves. Only then will we understand how dominant narratives are contested and how counternarratives have been obscured in public dialogue. Most glaring in the opioid epidemic has been the omission of narratives recounting the experiences of family members, public officials, health care providers, community leaders, and others who are intimately familiar with opioid abuse and the attempts to find new options for prevention and long-term recovery. In short: the voices of everyday Ohioans are missing.
Although these stories are not new, stigma and other barriers have prevented their public telling. As we learned after putting out a call for stories in the fall of 2017, many people are ready to share their perspective and are tired of the culture of silence that exists around opioid abuse. In a speech at Ohio University, Quinones argued that only recently had stories begun to emerge, largely as a result of the efforts of community members and leaders. When he was working on Dreamland, this openness just did not exist. “Every place I went,” he explained, “I could not find families who wanted to talk about this topic. It was just hidden. There were just a few people, and I put them all in my book; everybody else was afraid or ashamed or mortified.” The very existence of Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio—and the fact that so many Ohioans have freely shared how opioids have affected their lives, their families, their work, and their communities—is evidence that something is beginning to change.
While the public narratives about opioids in Ohio have helped us learn something about ourselves, our state, and our connection to larger trends related to opioids, the stories and experiences are only now reaching the public conversation. These stories may be a crucial part of reducing stigma and underscoring the efficacy of communities working together to solve challenging social problems. Shifting the dialogue to the personal helps us move away from abstractions such as “crisis” and “epidemic” to understand the day-to-day and lived experiences. In doing so, we’ll hear from a wide range of contributors who are economically, geographically, politically, and socially diverse. Across these perspectives, we do not attempt or claim to piece together a once-and-for-all account of opioids in Ohio, but we hope that by engaging these stories we will offer a more humane window into opioid addiction and use stories as a starting point for new and often difficult conversations.
The public historian Elizabeth Catte helps us understand how in Appalachia specifically, dominant narratives have largely come from the outside, tending to universalize the region as a passive victim to economic crisis and addiction. What we need instead, according to Catte, is to let individuals speak for themselves. Only then will we understand how dominant narratives are contested and how counternarratives have been obscured in public dialogue. Most glaring in the opioid epidemic has been the omission of narratives recounting the experiences of family members, public officials, health care providers, community leaders, and others who are intimately familiar with opioid abuse and the attempts to find new options for prevention and long-term recovery. In short: the voices of everyday Ohioans are missing.
Although these stories are not new, stigma and other barriers have prevented their public telling. As we learned after putting out a call for stories in the fall of 2017, many people are ready to share their perspective and are tired of the culture of silence that exists around opioid abuse. In a speech at Ohio University, Quinones argued that only recently had stories begun to emerge, largely as a result of the efforts of community members and leaders. When he was working on Dreamland, this openness just did not exist. “Every place I went,” he explained, “I could not find families who wanted to talk about this topic. It was just hidden. There were just a few people, and I put them all in my book; everybody else was afraid or ashamed or mortified.” The very existence of Not Far from Me: Stories of Opioids and Ohio—and the fact that so many Ohioans have freely shared how opioids have affected their lives, their families, their work, and their communities—is evidence that something is beginning to change.
While the public narratives about opioids in Ohio have helped us learn something about ourselves, our state, and our connection to larger trends related to opioids, the stories and experiences are only now reaching the public conversation. These stories may be a crucial part of reducing stigma and underscoring the efficacy of communities working together to solve challenging social problems. Shifting the dialogue to the personal helps us move away from abstractions such as “crisis” and “epidemic” to understand the day-to-day and lived experiences. In doing so, we’ll hear from a wide range of contributors who are economically, geographically, politically, and socially diverse. Across these perspectives, we do not attempt or claim to piece together a once-and-for-all account of opioids in Ohio, but we hope that by engaging these stories we will offer a more humane window into opioid addiction and use stories as a starting point for new and often difficult conversations.
Cuprins
Foreword
FORMER GOVERNOR OF OHIO TED STRICKLAND xi
Introduction
DANIEL SKINNER AND BERKELEY FRANZ xv
PART ONE: ESTABLISHING PLACE
1 Ode to the Corner of the Drug House Down the Gravel Road
Off the Two-Lane Highway #29
DARREN C. DEMAREE (COLUMBUS) 5
2 Reflections of a Recovery Writer
ANNIE HIGHWATER (GROVE CITY) 6
3 A Place for “Total Recovery”
MEMBERS OF TOLEDO RESTORATION CHURCH (TOLEDO) 11
4 Building Community in the B. Riley Sober House
RAFAEL “TONY” CORREA (CLEVELAND) 16
5 Walking Past Abandoned Houses, I Think of Eric
BARBARA COSTAS-BIGGS (PORTSMOUTH) 20
6 How Are the Children?
JOY EDGELL (BELPRE) 22
7 A Haven from Human Trafficking and Addiction
JEFF BARROWS (ZANESFIELD) 26
8 A New Home
MARY LYNN ST. LAWRENCE (ATHENS) 30
CONTENTS
v i • C ontents
9 Collaboration in Middletown
TRAVIS BAUTZ (MIDDLETOWN) 33
10 Defiance, Ohio Is the Name of a Band
HANIF ABDURRAQIB (COLUMBUS) 37
11 A Heartache Not My Own
CAITLIN SEIDA (THE PLAINS) 40
PART TWO: PROCESSING LOSS
12 What Addiction Gave Me
TONY ANDERS (UPPER ARLINGTON) 47
13 The Stories Make It Real: A Mayor in the Heart of the Opioid
Epidemic
NAN WHALEY (DAYTON) 51
14 Jane’s Story
KERRI MONGENEL (ASHTABULA) 55
15 A Coach’s Regrets
MATT DENNISON (NEW PHILADELPHIA) 60
16 An Individual’s Addiction, A Family’s Loss
AJ, JENNA, SHERIE, AND ALAN STEINBERGER
(HIGHLAND HEIGHTS) 65
17 The Pain of Wanting to Help
ANONYMOUS 71
18 My Reality at the Bedside
HANK ROSSITER (KIDRON) 74
19 What Happens Under the Overpass
NEIL CARPATHIOS (PORTSMOUTH) 78
20 Community and Vulnerability
BRIAN SCHWEITZER (COLUMBUS) 80
21 Remaking a Family
CHRIS, ESTELLA, AND TYLER FERRELL (MINFORD) 85
22 Dear Travis
VICKI SCHARBACH (OLMSTED FALLS) 92
23 Despair
GERALD E. GREENE (DAYTON) 98
C ontents • v i i
PART THREE: MAKING SENSE
24 A Predictable and Utterly Preventable Catastrophe
MICHAEL HENSON (CINCINNATI) 103
25 Standing Proud
ERIC UNGARO (POLAND) 112
26 Uncle Sugar
ANISI DANIELS-SMITH (HIRAM) 118
27 Potential Energy
APRIL DEACON (WHEELERSBURG) 122
28 The Road to Recovery
ALEX DRIEHAUS (CINCINNATI) 129
29 From Felon to Law Enforcement: A Retrospective
BRANDY E. MORRIS-HAFNER (CHILLICOTHE) 141
30 A Little Too Close to Home
KEITH F. DURKIN (ADA) 147
31 Deluded
MARTY HELMS (CINCINNATI) 152
32 Opioid Encounters: Fragments from Training and Practice
JENNY ZAMOR (COLUMBUS) 161
33 An Awakening
JOE GAY (ATHENS) 165
PART FOUR: DEVISING SOLUTIONS
34 This Is Not the Medicine I Want to Practice: One Physician’s
Journey to Heal, Not Harm
KATY KROPF (ATHENS) 175
35 Problem-Solving in Colerain Township
DANIEL MELOY (CINCINNATI) 182
36 The Buck Fifty
DAVE HUGGINS, CHRIS SCOTT, AND ANGIE FERGUSON
(CHILLICOTHE) 186
37 Plans after Prison
JONATHAN BECKER (AKRON) 194
v i i i • C ontents
38 Avoiding the Abyss
SHARON PARSONS (BEXLEY) 197
39 All the Narcan in the World
DAVID KESEG (COLUMBUS) 201
40 Pause for Change
NANCY POOK (DAYTON) 206
41 Reconnecting through Rhythm: A Symphony and Recovery
WARREN W. HYER (DELAWARE) 211
42 Rural Challenges, Rural Solutions
STEVEN MARTIN, AMY FANOUS, AND KATIE WESTGERDES (ADA) 216
43 A Way Forward for Moms and Babies
RICHARD MASSATTI (COLUMBUS) 223
44 From the Front Pages to the Front Lines
DARREN ADAMS (PORTSMOUTH) 230
PART FIVE: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS
45 A Good Family
CHRISTINE HUNT (RUSSELLS POINT) 239
46 Feral
JESSICA HARPER AND SARAH BENEDUM (MADISON) 243
47 Recovery Should Be Celebrated, Not Judged
LACEY WHITLATCH (ATHENS) 247
48 Serve and Protect
DENNIS WHALEY (TOLEDO) 251
49 What Do Libraries Do?
NICK TEPE (ATHENS) 254
50 Confronting Stigma in Portsmouth
TRACI MOLLOY 260
51 Everybody Played Along
ANONYMOUS (COLUMBUS) 268
52 The Making of a Public Health Emergency
YVONKA MARIE HALL (CLEVELAND) 271
53 The Addict, a Human Being
STEPHANIE KENDRICK (ALBANY) 276
C ontents • i x
Acknowledgments 279
Glossary of Drugs 281
FORMER GOVERNOR OF OHIO TED STRICKLAND xi
Introduction
DANIEL SKINNER AND BERKELEY FRANZ xv
PART ONE: ESTABLISHING PLACE
1 Ode to the Corner of the Drug House Down the Gravel Road
Off the Two-Lane Highway #29
DARREN C. DEMAREE (COLUMBUS) 5
2 Reflections of a Recovery Writer
ANNIE HIGHWATER (GROVE CITY) 6
3 A Place for “Total Recovery”
MEMBERS OF TOLEDO RESTORATION CHURCH (TOLEDO) 11
4 Building Community in the B. Riley Sober House
RAFAEL “TONY” CORREA (CLEVELAND) 16
5 Walking Past Abandoned Houses, I Think of Eric
BARBARA COSTAS-BIGGS (PORTSMOUTH) 20
6 How Are the Children?
JOY EDGELL (BELPRE) 22
7 A Haven from Human Trafficking and Addiction
JEFF BARROWS (ZANESFIELD) 26
8 A New Home
MARY LYNN ST. LAWRENCE (ATHENS) 30
CONTENTS
v i • C ontents
9 Collaboration in Middletown
TRAVIS BAUTZ (MIDDLETOWN) 33
10 Defiance, Ohio Is the Name of a Band
HANIF ABDURRAQIB (COLUMBUS) 37
11 A Heartache Not My Own
CAITLIN SEIDA (THE PLAINS) 40
PART TWO: PROCESSING LOSS
12 What Addiction Gave Me
TONY ANDERS (UPPER ARLINGTON) 47
13 The Stories Make It Real: A Mayor in the Heart of the Opioid
Epidemic
NAN WHALEY (DAYTON) 51
14 Jane’s Story
KERRI MONGENEL (ASHTABULA) 55
15 A Coach’s Regrets
MATT DENNISON (NEW PHILADELPHIA) 60
16 An Individual’s Addiction, A Family’s Loss
AJ, JENNA, SHERIE, AND ALAN STEINBERGER
(HIGHLAND HEIGHTS) 65
17 The Pain of Wanting to Help
ANONYMOUS 71
18 My Reality at the Bedside
HANK ROSSITER (KIDRON) 74
19 What Happens Under the Overpass
NEIL CARPATHIOS (PORTSMOUTH) 78
20 Community and Vulnerability
BRIAN SCHWEITZER (COLUMBUS) 80
21 Remaking a Family
CHRIS, ESTELLA, AND TYLER FERRELL (MINFORD) 85
22 Dear Travis
VICKI SCHARBACH (OLMSTED FALLS) 92
23 Despair
GERALD E. GREENE (DAYTON) 98
C ontents • v i i
PART THREE: MAKING SENSE
24 A Predictable and Utterly Preventable Catastrophe
MICHAEL HENSON (CINCINNATI) 103
25 Standing Proud
ERIC UNGARO (POLAND) 112
26 Uncle Sugar
ANISI DANIELS-SMITH (HIRAM) 118
27 Potential Energy
APRIL DEACON (WHEELERSBURG) 122
28 The Road to Recovery
ALEX DRIEHAUS (CINCINNATI) 129
29 From Felon to Law Enforcement: A Retrospective
BRANDY E. MORRIS-HAFNER (CHILLICOTHE) 141
30 A Little Too Close to Home
KEITH F. DURKIN (ADA) 147
31 Deluded
MARTY HELMS (CINCINNATI) 152
32 Opioid Encounters: Fragments from Training and Practice
JENNY ZAMOR (COLUMBUS) 161
33 An Awakening
JOE GAY (ATHENS) 165
PART FOUR: DEVISING SOLUTIONS
34 This Is Not the Medicine I Want to Practice: One Physician’s
Journey to Heal, Not Harm
KATY KROPF (ATHENS) 175
35 Problem-Solving in Colerain Township
DANIEL MELOY (CINCINNATI) 182
36 The Buck Fifty
DAVE HUGGINS, CHRIS SCOTT, AND ANGIE FERGUSON
(CHILLICOTHE) 186
37 Plans after Prison
JONATHAN BECKER (AKRON) 194
v i i i • C ontents
38 Avoiding the Abyss
SHARON PARSONS (BEXLEY) 197
39 All the Narcan in the World
DAVID KESEG (COLUMBUS) 201
40 Pause for Change
NANCY POOK (DAYTON) 206
41 Reconnecting through Rhythm: A Symphony and Recovery
WARREN W. HYER (DELAWARE) 211
42 Rural Challenges, Rural Solutions
STEVEN MARTIN, AMY FANOUS, AND KATIE WESTGERDES (ADA) 216
43 A Way Forward for Moms and Babies
RICHARD MASSATTI (COLUMBUS) 223
44 From the Front Pages to the Front Lines
DARREN ADAMS (PORTSMOUTH) 230
PART FIVE: CHALLENGING ASSUMPTIONS
45 A Good Family
CHRISTINE HUNT (RUSSELLS POINT) 239
46 Feral
JESSICA HARPER AND SARAH BENEDUM (MADISON) 243
47 Recovery Should Be Celebrated, Not Judged
LACEY WHITLATCH (ATHENS) 247
48 Serve and Protect
DENNIS WHALEY (TOLEDO) 251
49 What Do Libraries Do?
NICK TEPE (ATHENS) 254
50 Confronting Stigma in Portsmouth
TRACI MOLLOY 260
51 Everybody Played Along
ANONYMOUS (COLUMBUS) 268
52 The Making of a Public Health Emergency
YVONKA MARIE HALL (CLEVELAND) 271
53 The Addict, a Human Being
STEPHANIE KENDRICK (ALBANY) 276
C ontents • i x
Acknowledgments 279
Glossary of Drugs 281
Descriere
A collection of more than fifty first-person accounts—narratives, poetry, photos, and interviews—of Ohioans impacted by the opioid crisis.